Australian Centre for Disease Control (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2025 (62 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 2   Provisions relating to the amendment of the Biosecurity Act 2015

9   Transitional - transfer of documents to Health Secretary

(1) This item applies to any records or documents that:

(a) relate to a function or power of the Director of Human Biosecurity under the Biosecurity Act 2015 (other than section 42 or 169 of that Act); and

(b) immediately before the transition time, were in the possession of:

(i) the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer; or

(ii) an APS employee in the Health Department; or

(iii) a delegate of the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer.

(2) The records and documents are to be transferred to the Health Secretary after the transition time.

Note: Any records and documents transferred are Commonwealth records for the purposes of the Archives Act 1983.

(3) The transitional rules may provide that:

(a) subitem (2) does not apply to specified records or documents; or

(b) subitem (2) does not apply to records or documents that relate to a specified function or power of the Director of Human Biosecurity.

(4) Subitem (3) does not limit subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.